I’m a sucker for any creator of anything talking at length, and with passion, about making something. I love when comedians discuss the craft of working and reworking their acts on stage and behind …
Read MoreAfter a career in tech, working at Google, HubSpot, and in VC, yanno what I finally realized? Growth is the problem, not the solution. Okay, okay, I need to qualify that. It’s not that growing a business is, itself, a problem…
Read MoreGlance around the business world and you tend to see the opposite: people posturing and pushing their answers and secrets to success and self-importance.
Nothing is more abhorrent than when someone declares, "I can teach you to..." or "I will..." or "I'm sharing my secrets..."
These are a few big shifts that can help each of us become more motivated and focused. By writing this to you, I’m reminding myself as much as anyone else. The daily slog…
Read More“How can we get everyone in the industry to think this way?”
“How can we change the culture?”
“How can we start writing stories instead of list articles?”
“How can we [insert sweeping change]?”
Answer…
Read MoreHeading into any job, you sort of embrace that any of a few factors could cause you to leave it: You don’t like the boss, don’t feel you’re rewarded fairly for the work you do, maybe you move, and so on…
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